Instruments Guitar, vocals | Name Black Ace Role Musician | |
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Also known as B.K. Turner
Black Ace Turner
Babe Turner Born December 21, 1905
Hughes Springs, Texas, United States ( 1905-12-21 ) Years active Late 1920s – mid-1940s, 1960–1962 Died November 7, 1972, Fort Worth, Texas, United States Albums I'm The Boss Card In Your Hand, Whiskey and Women Genres Texas blues, Country blues Record labels Arhoolie Records, Decca Records Similar People Smokey Hogg, Scrapper Blackwell, Pink Anderson, Kokomo Arnold, Alger "Texas" Alexander | ||
Birth name Babe Kyro Lemon Turner | ||
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Black Ace was the most frequently used stage name of the American Texas blues musician born Babe Kyro Lemon Turner (December 21, 1905 – November 7, 1972), who was also known as B. K. Turner, Black Ace Turner, Babe Turner and Buck Turner.
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He was born in Hughes Springs, Texas, and was raised on his family's farm. He taught himself to play guitar and performed in east Texas from the late 1920s on. In the early 1930s he began playing with Smokey Hogg and Oscar "Buddy" Woods, a Hawaiian-style guitarist who played with the instrument flat on his lap. Turner then bought a National steel guitar and began playing what a later critic called "Hawaii meets the Delta," smooth and simple blues.
In 1937, Turner recorded six songs (possibly with Hogg as second guitarist) for Decca Records in Dallas, including the blues song "Black Ace". In the same year, he started a radio show on KFJZ in Fort Worth, using that recording as a theme song, and soon assumed the name.
In 1941 he appeared in The Blood of Jesus, an African-American movie produced by Spencer Williams Jr. In 1943 Turner was drafted into the United States Army and gave up playing music for some years. In 1960, Chris Strachwitz, the owner of Arhoolie Records, persuaded him to record an album for Arhoolie. His last public performance was in the 1962 film documentary The Blues.
Turner died of cancer in Fort Worth in 1972. Turner has a grandson Bobby Turner of Trinidad Texas.